[ecrea] CFP: Politics of On-line Education

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: Politics of On-line Education



SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 01 May 2015

PUBLICATION: International Journal of E-Politics



OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE:

This special issue invites submissions on the Political Aspects of 
On-line Education. For this special issue, online education generally 
references any

web-based learning, including for profit and not for profit, public and 
private. Thus, it includes online, hybrid and free offerings such as MOOCs,

and specialized training as well as accredited university offerings.



Regardless of the specific offering, it is a disruptive technology that 
impacts the Higher Education industry. Higher Education is integral to 
productivity

and innovation, at individual and collective levels. Thus, it affects 
the differential influence, or power, of individuals, organizations, 
governments and

alliances. Online education impacts (push), and is impacted by (pull), 
such shifting power structures (c.f., Brown and Adler, 2008). It also 
amplifies,

and is amplified by, globalization’s disruptive forces.



This special issue’s objective is to explore online education’s impact 
and its shifting political implications on various levels and scales, 
including individual,

regulatory, social and cultural. These implications are on and between 
individuals, within and between organizations, and within and between 
governments,

and combinations of these.



SUGGESTED TOPICS:

We are interested in topics that include (but are not limited to) the 
following:

* Accreditation, Regulation, Federal Financial Aid
* Impact on organizational and industry structure within the Higher 
Education industry
* Strategic implications/ opportunities/ challenges/ prescriptions for 
traditional and online, public and private Higher Education organizations
* Shifting higher education business models’ impacts (e.g., economic, 
social, psychological) on administrator, faculty, staff and student 
roles and power, e.g., adjunctification’s un-bundling of work (course 
design, seminars, grading, mentoring, advising, governance, research, 
service, etc.).
* Implications from shifting cross-subsidies associated with new models 
(e.g., large lower-level introduction courses subsidize small 
upper-level specialized courses –what happens when the introductory 
courses are waived in competency-based scenarios or MOOCs are accepted 
for credit?).
* Power issues associated with shifting models of education, e.g., 
competency based degrees, MOOCs, hybrid programs, etc. Who wins, who 
loses? What potential strategies exist?
* “The next billion”—i.e., Online education’s potential to efficiently 
educate financially- and/or technologically-challenged students, both in 
developed and developing regions. What are the political implications of 
this? What policies/ strategies can enhance or diminish this potential?
* Online education’s colonialization and resulting potential for 
cultural homogenization. Transplanting developed regions’ educational 
models and resources to other cultures may cause the latter 
(colonialized) to resemble the former (colonial). What strategies are 
used to resist this colonialization and homogenization?
* Gender issues—Are women more highly represented as online students and 
faculty? Why or why not? What are the political and performance 
implications?
* Political issues associated with globalization and online learning
* Religious issues associated with online learning, possibly combined 
with globalization aspects.
* Virtual workers’ political issues in dealing with each other, with 
supervisors and subordinates. What happens when information is 
un-bundled from people and places, and flows more freely? Who wins and 
who loses? What games inhibit and lubricate these information flows?
* Politics of Open Source materials –Who owns, who uses, who benefits, 
who loses, who controls, etc.





SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with the politics of 
online education broadly defined are invited to submit papers for this 
themed issue. All submissions are due by May 1, 2015.

All queries to

Kristina Setzekorn (ksetzekorn /at/ kaplan.edu)



Full papers to be submitted electronically, and please reference this 
special issue

http://www.igi-global.com/IJEP/





Editors-in-Chief:

Celia Romm Livermore, School of Business Administration, Wayne State 
University, Detroit, USA

Yasmin Ibrahim, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, 
University of London, https://qmul.academia.edu/yasminibrahim

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of E-Politics is published by IGI Global 
(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science 
Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information 
Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the 
publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.




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